Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

by T. S. Eliot
Collected Poems, 1909-1962

Collected Poems, 1909-1962

by T. S. Eliot

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Overview

There is no more authoritative collection of the poetry that Eliot himself wished to preserve than this volume, published two years before his death in 1965.

Poet, dramatist, critic, and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of Collected Poems 1909-1962 includes The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock along with Four Quartets, The Waste Land, and several other poems.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547538211
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/13/2014
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 573,303
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Table of Contents

Prufrock--19171
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock3
Portrait of a Lady8
Preludes13
Rhapsody on a Windy Night16
Morning at the Window19
The Boston Evening Transcript20
Aunt Helen21
Cousin Nancy22
Mr. Apollinax23
Hysteria24
Conversation Galante25
La Figlia che Piange26
Poems--192027
Gerontion29
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar32
Sweeney Erect34
A Cooking Egg36
Le Directeur38
Melange Adultere de Tout39
Lune de Miel40
The Hippopotamus41
Dans le Restaurant43
Whispers of Immortality45
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service47
Sweeney Among the Nightingales49
The Waste Land--192251
I.The Burial of the Dead53
II.A Game of Chess56
III.The Fire Sermon60
IV.Death by Water65
V.What the Thunder Said66
Notes on 'The Waste Land'70
The Hollow Men--192577
Ash-Wednesday--193083
I.Because I do not hope to turn again85
II.Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree87
III.At the first turning of the second stair89
IV.Who walked between the violet and the violet90
V.If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent92
VI.Although I do not hope to turn again94
Ariel Poems97
Journey of the Magi--192799
A Song for Simeon--1928101
Animula--1929103
Marina--1930105
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees--1954107
Unfinished Poems109
Sweeney Agonistes111
Fragment of a Prologue111
Fragment of an Agon118
Coriolan125
I.Triumphal March--1931125
II.Difficulties of a Statesman127
Minor Poems131
Eyes that last I saw in tears133
The wind sprang up at four o'clock134
Five-finger exercises135
I.Lines to a Persian Cat135
II.Lines to a Yorkshire Terrier135
III.Lines to a Duck in the Park136
IV.Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre136
V.Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg137
Landscapes138
I.New Hampshire138
II.Virginia139
III.Usk140
IV.Rannoch, by Glencoe141
V.Cape Ann142
Lines for an Old Man143
Choruses From 'the Rock'--1934145
I.The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven147
II.Thus your fathers were made152
III.The Word of the Lord came unto me, saying155
IV.There are those who would build the Temple158
V.O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart159
VI.It is hard for those who have never known persecution160
VII.In the beginning God created the world162
VIII.O Father we welcome your words165
IX.Son of Man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears167
X.You have seen the house built, you have seen it adorned169
Four Quartets173
Burnt Norton--1935175
East Coker--1940182
The Dry Salvages--1941191
Little Gidding--1942200
Occasional Verses211
Defense of the Islands213
A Note on War Poetry215
To the Indians Who Died in Africa217
To Walter de la Mare219
A Dedication to My Wife221
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